Political Quotes

“Well, let's call it the Lieberman-Voinovich amendment. Senator Voinovich has spoken from his own experience in the Ohio case. As he said, sometimes people say opportunity scholarships or vouchers are constitutionally suspect or unconstitutional. Not true. The Supreme Court has ruled that the Ohio voucher program was a neutral private choice program that did not violate the establishment clause. But I will tell you what rings in my ear is the questions that have been raised by my colleagues in support of this amendment. Senator Voinovich said: Why would you vote against this amendment? Why would you vote against this program? As the Senator from California, Mrs. Feinstein, said: What is there to be afraid of in this program? It doesn't take money away from the public schools. The head of the DC Public School System is for the program because she thinks it will benefit the children who need it, whom she knows she can't give a quality education to over the 5 years of the authorization program. This program has been tested by an independent evaluator, Dr. Patrick Wolf, principal investigator for the U.S. Department of Education study, and he concluded that: The DC voucher program has proven to be the most effective education innovation policy program evaluated by the Federal Government's official education research arm so far.…”